Corporate Opportunism Has Reached a New Low

Jill Richardson / OtherWords Jun 30, 2019 Churning out cheap rainbow swag during Pride Month is about marketing, not supporting LGBTQ+ people. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Straight People Should Be Glad They Don’t Need a Parade

Jill Richardson / OtherWords Jun 12, 2019 Contrary to what the organizers of Boston's "Straight Pride Parade" would have you believe, straight pride is already well represented. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Gay Pride Parades Sound a Note of Resistance

By Olga R. Rodriguez, Associated Press Jun 26, 2017 "We have to be as visible as possible," said one San Francisco marcher who joined a "resistance contingent" that led the city's parade. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Pride and Defiance: LGBTQ Marchers Make a Showing at the White House

Staff / Truthdig Jun 12, 2017 Though celebration was in the air at Saturday's Capital Pride Parade in Washington, D.C., the crowd also brought other sentiments and goals to this year's event. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Gun Store Owner Says He Tipped FBI Off About Suspicious Customer Weeks Before Orlando Shooting

Staff / Truthdig Jun 17, 2016 The FBI has some explaining to do. A gun store owner in Jensen Beach, Fla., has said that he alerted the intelligence agency's West Palm Beach outpost about an incident involving a suspicious customer who turned out to be Pulse Orlando shooter Omar Mateen. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Top Seven Ways to Tell If Someone Is Lying About Being a ‘Salafi Jihadi’ (Video)

Juan Cole / Truthdig Jun 14, 2016 Regulars at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., are saying that Omar Mateen, the gunman in the early Sunday-morning massacre there, was himself a regular. So there’s just one thing about his claim to be acting on behalf of Islamic State: Puritanical Muslim fundamentalists of the Islamic State sort don’t frequent gay bars. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Omar Mateen and Right-Wing Homophobia: Was Florida Massacre a Hate Crime or Domestic Terrorism?

Juan Cole / Truthdig Jun 13, 2016 U.S. law enforcement is at least initially categorizing the horrific Orlando shootings as “domestic terrorism,” but it probably wasn't terrorism in any useful sense of the word. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Will Orlando Drive Us From Our Corners?

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Jun 13, 2016 It only compounded the horror that the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history called forth talking points that had been composed long before 50 innocents were murdered early Sunday. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

50 Dead at LGBT Nightclub in Orlando, Fla., in Worst Mass Shooting in U.S. History

Staff / Truthdig Jun 12, 2016 The gunman who launched an attack at the Pulse bar early Sunday was identified, and the death toll broke a horrific record. President Obama addressed the nation, and state, city and law enforcement officials have commented from Orlando. (Updated late Sunday.) Dig deeper ( 15 Min. Read )

Google Highlights the Age of the Gay Athlete

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Jun 4, 2014 LGBT athletes are breaking barriers in so many sports it's hard to keep track. Google and YouTube are sharing in the pride of gay and lesbian athletes with a new video that has been living in that extremely rare ad spot on the Google home page. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

California Doomed After Prop 8

Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons Jul 1, 2013 Dig deeper

Scalia and Uncle Sam

John Cole, Cagle Cartoons, The Scranton Times-Tribune Jul 1, 2013 Dig deeper